I'd like to meet some Slashers. But I was hoping it would take the form of a convention or something. (Break off into related groups. Debate, talk.) Something formal like.
In this part of the country, a local meet would probably turn out to be kinda lame. [Central US]
What would be even better is if it was something educational and related to my work (Solaris admin) that I could convince the company to send me to.
My take on this (which hopefully has something insightful after 400 previous posts) is that a college education isn't required. YET. It was the same way for my father in electronics. He worked in an American Airlines repair facility. I think he initially started out on radars.
But after decades of the electronics field maturing, he found that he was just about the only person WITHOUT a college degree. And towards the end of his career, it impacted on his perceived ability to do his job and his chances for promotion.
While a computer degree may not be required NOW, you've got to think about 20 or 30 years down the road. You could very well end up screwed without one.
FWIW, some of my coworkers (sysadmins) don't have college degrees. They are a little uptight about it at times. And they know they are on a little shakier ground than their degreed counterparts.
Is a college education required to do the job? No. But it is the perceptions of people around you, now and in the future, that really count.
Actually, I have no horror stories to share. If a shock sensor has gone off, we go through the procedures. Sun typically checks the machine out to verify that everything is okay. Never seen a shipping crate fall on its side. They have wider bases than the cabinet itself. In any case, you don't have much downside here, although it is an interesting event.
If you're under 18, you can't collect classic arcade hardware. (And if you're a seller, even for a hobby, imagine the annoyance of asking ID to sell stuff on eBay.) Geeeez.
You want them to stop contacting you. You don't want to contact them. The answer is simple. Set up a filter rule on your mailbox. Divert their messages to the trashcan. End of story.
It gets worse. The memory isn't even parity protected.
This reminds me of the Hitchikker's Guide to the Galaxy. You know, the planet builders who put themselves into crogenic freeze until the next recession wore out? If Microsoft dies, all they have to do is become an investment company for a while, and ride the next wave of technology back in.
For all of the tech jobs laying off, you believe that the new positions opening at McDonalds, even if in greater quantity, is an upside for the economy?
Yes... yes... I know. I don't have sufficient evidence to prove that either. But I believe in that as a trend, on a general level.
Okay. You've twisted my arm. I'll TiVo it for a few and see if I like it.
FWIW: I think the scene I most remembered and liked with Bryce was when he made the censor program go into a feedback to censor itself. That, and some strange infiltration of a lab that had Max Headroom or something.
I also liked the episode with the secret school and sky clearance.
I don't know what I was thinking that I liked it so much. I guess it was neat seeing a skilled programmer / hacker type in action. And as arrogant as you're worst sysadmin nightmare.;)
For once, they've got something on TechTV that I actually want to watch. Max Headroom of all things! That was relegated to certain death on the A&E network where it was playing.
But this time around, I've got TiVo. I'll save and savor every episode. This completely rocks. (Can you believe I kind of idolized Bryce Lynch when I worked at an ISP? Scary thought.)
This'll go absolutely perfect for the videos to play in my arcade gameroom. Max rocks. He's the perfect consumer whore!
"If I was a moderator" I would have given you a +1 for this. But then you put in the "get it..." line. You lost your karma bonus.
Re:How to detect cloaking - Star Trek style...
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I'm trying to remember the details of the episode where they had the Klingon civil war, those wonderful Duras daughters (and coward son), and the daughter of Tasha Yar. They made some sort of tachyon network between a large number of starships to try to find a cloaked Romulan convoy crossing into Klingon space. Of course, in the end, Lt. Commander Data used a modified photon torpedo to illuminate a cloaked Romulan ship.
Therefore, I would suggest that a photon torpedo would be the method best used against cloaked sites. Just one should do the trick.
I have spoken with the people at Vonage about something different, and that is using a TiVo or some other device that needs to make a modem connection. Will it work if I plug them in?
Answer: No. (As expected.) Comments: Yes, they fully understood the question.
I am using Ximian for Solaris as my only desktop at work. However, My experience has been very painful. Bugs still seem to be plentiful. When I report bugs with the bug report tool, the response team seems to think I'm from outer space because I'm running it on Solaris, and they have never been able to help. Red Carpet upgrades seem to always bring new bugs (the most notable ones have been ones which prevent Red Carpet from working). The Evolution mailer will no longer launch, even though I have removed and added back in the package.
Considering all the problems with the Ximian desktop for Solaris, the fact that Solaris is going to make Gnome 2.0 the default desktop, and the lack of profit potential in the Solaris desktop market, isn't it best to knife the baby?
That caught my eye when I was reading the article. Actually, it bugged me. In a way, it reminds me of the arcade games that would say something like Stage 4 Complete!!.
Anyhow, a moderation of off-topic for his post is incorrect. It is commenting on the story. And frankly, I found it a bit funny. Player 2, Ready!!
For the first time, I'm going to excommunicate a product.
I'm completely sick of Real One bugging me with those popups in the lower right hand corner of my Windows desktop. And when I disabled them, later it came back again with more popups telling me it is time to upgrade. I'm sick of its oh-so-helpful communications and I am through with them.
I hope this new 'helpfulness' they've put into their product will drive them into the ground. For the first time, I'm cheering for Microsoft when it comes to media players. (At least Microsoft doesn't require me to purchase an additional player to get "high end" content.) Not that I'm a friend of Microsoft either.
Yet another example of why we can't trust corporations to stream us video. Embrace open protocols, folks.
I noticed your curve is shrinking. 512 is 32x 16. The rest are 16x greater than the previous number. Your last upgrade is 12x. In this case, I don't think you underpurchased. I think memory requirements are starting to slow down. You might get more than 5-6 years out of that upgrade. Assuming, of course, memory PERFORMANCE isn't an issue.
The joke at the time was, "Stop playing with your Wang, and RTFM!"
Oh... SFTP. Not FSP.... HA!
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I had a flashback to my college days (mid 1990's) where FSP was starting to see wide usage for distributing files. FSP was unofficially dubbed the "Free Software Protocol", which has absolutely nothing to do with Open Source and Free Software, but the delivery of commercial software.
FSP was really appealing because no matter how many people connected to a server, 1 or 100, all the data was delivered by a single UNIX user process. This reduced the file server's profile below the radar of many sysadmins. (As compared to FTPd, which would launch a daemon for each connection and completely saturate a connection.)
You could operate a FSP server right under the nose of your university without them even wandering what is going on.
BTW: You are defining a good SFTP client as one with a GUI?
The first is the theme. All servers are named after cartoon characters. There is an almost inexhaustable supply, and it is very easy (after a bit of time) to associate a character with a server. "Sluggo" can be far easier to remember then PDCCV04. Especially late at night.
The second method is to take a three letter city or site abbreviation, follow that with a two letter application abbreviation, and follow that by two numbers (starting at 01). Utterly boring, impossible to remember.
But then again, management started to like the second method after I named some servers after Pokemon characters. It seems they have some embarassment when they have to describe to a vice president the problems that [i]Jigglypuff[/i] is having.
But people who work with the servers definately know which are which. And you can guess that Charizard might be a pretty powerful 24-way with 24gb of RAM [e10k domain].
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I'd like to meet some Slashers. But I was hoping it would take the form of a convention or something. (Break off into related groups. Debate, talk.) Something formal like.
In this part of the country, a local meet would probably turn out to be kinda lame. [Central US]
What would be even better is if it was something educational and related to my work (Solaris admin) that I could convince the company to send me to.
Yeah, I'd definately like to do a Slash thing.
I laughed mightily and horribly at the end of that. You should be ashamed, and thanked for that URL.
PS: This 20 second no-post rule really bugs fast typists. Some of us type faster than you, Slash coderz!
No, I don't believe that anyone has. This scam was performed on you, and only you. But seriously, nice job, and nice story!
Ugh. That totally sucks. (Thinking... what would be the actual DPI on a movie screen?)
My take on this (which hopefully has something insightful after 400 previous posts) is that a college education isn't required. YET. It was the same way for my father in electronics. He worked in an American Airlines repair facility. I think he initially started out on radars.
But after decades of the electronics field maturing, he found that he was just about the only person WITHOUT a college degree. And towards the end of his career, it impacted on his perceived ability to do his job and his chances for promotion.
While a computer degree may not be required NOW, you've got to think about 20 or 30 years down the road. You could very well end up screwed without one.
FWIW, some of my coworkers (sysadmins) don't have college degrees. They are a little uptight about it at times. And they know they are on a little shakier ground than their degreed counterparts.
Is a college education required to do the job? No. But it is the perceptions of people around you, now and in the future, that really count.
Actually, I have no horror stories to share. If a shock sensor has gone off, we go through the procedures. Sun typically checks the machine out to verify that everything is okay. Never seen a shipping crate fall on its side. They have wider bases than the cabinet itself. In any case, you don't have much downside here, although it is an interesting event.
If you're under 18, you can't collect classic arcade hardware. (And if you're a seller, even for a hobby, imagine the annoyance of asking ID to sell stuff on eBay.) Geeeez.
You want them to stop contacting you. You don't want to contact them. The answer is simple. Set up a filter rule on your mailbox. Divert their messages to the trashcan. End of story.
It gets worse. The memory isn't even parity protected.
This reminds me of the Hitchikker's Guide to the Galaxy. You know, the planet builders who put themselves into crogenic freeze until the next recession wore out? If Microsoft dies, all they have to do is become an investment company for a while, and ride the next wave of technology back in.
For all of the tech jobs laying off, you believe that the new positions opening at McDonalds, even if in greater quantity, is an upside for the economy?
Yes... yes... I know. I don't have sufficient evidence to prove that either. But I believe in that as a trend, on a general level.
Note: that job-loss figure is off; the 15,000 jobs projected to be cut are from a total of 150,000 between the two companies.
;)
Timothy, are you sure you want to make that correction? Your previous statement, while more speculative, may actually be closer to the truth!
Okay. You've twisted my arm. I'll TiVo it for a few and see if I like it.
;)
FWIW: I think the scene I most remembered and liked with Bryce was when he made the censor program go into a feedback to censor itself. That, and some strange infiltration of a lab that had Max Headroom or something.
I also liked the episode with the secret school and sky clearance.
I don't know what I was thinking that I liked it so much. I guess it was neat seeing a skilled programmer / hacker type in action. And as arrogant as you're worst sysadmin nightmare.
It could be WORSE.
You could be seeing a talking coca-cola vending machine.
Don't forget your change!
For once, they've got something on TechTV that I actually want to watch. Max Headroom of all things! That was relegated to certain death on the A&E network where it was playing.
But this time around, I've got TiVo. I'll save and savor every episode. This completely rocks. (Can you believe I kind of idolized Bryce Lynch when I worked at an ISP? Scary thought.)
This'll go absolutely perfect for the videos to play in my arcade gameroom. Max rocks. He's the perfect consumer whore!
"If I was a moderator" I would have given you a +1 for this. But then you put in the "get it..." line. You lost your karma bonus.
I'm trying to remember the details of the episode where they had the Klingon civil war, those wonderful Duras daughters (and coward son), and the daughter of Tasha Yar. They made some sort of tachyon network between a large number of starships to try to find a cloaked Romulan convoy crossing into Klingon space. Of course, in the end, Lt. Commander Data used a modified photon torpedo to illuminate a cloaked Romulan ship.
Therefore, I would suggest that a photon torpedo would be the method best used against cloaked sites. Just one should do the trick.
I have spoken with the people at Vonage about something different, and that is using a TiVo or some other device that needs to make a modem connection. Will it work if I plug them in?
Answer: No. (As expected.)
Comments: Yes, they fully understood the question.
I am using Ximian for Solaris as my only desktop at work. However, My experience has been very painful. Bugs still seem to be plentiful. When I report bugs with the bug report tool, the response team seems to think I'm from outer space because I'm running it on Solaris, and they have never been able to help. Red Carpet upgrades seem to always bring new bugs (the most notable ones have been ones which prevent Red Carpet from working). The Evolution mailer will no longer launch, even though I have removed and added back in the package.
Considering all the problems with the Ximian desktop for Solaris, the fact that Solaris is going to make Gnome 2.0 the default desktop, and the lack of profit potential in the Solaris desktop market, isn't it best to knife the baby?
That caught my eye when I was reading the article. Actually, it bugged me. In a way, it reminds me of the arcade games that would say something like Stage 4 Complete!! .
Anyhow, a moderation of off-topic for his post is incorrect. It is commenting on the story. And frankly, I found it a bit funny. Player 2, Ready!!
For the first time, I'm going to excommunicate a product.
I'm completely sick of Real One bugging me with those popups in the lower right hand corner of my Windows desktop. And when I disabled them, later it came back again with more popups telling me it is time to upgrade. I'm sick of its oh-so-helpful communications and I am through with them.
I hope this new 'helpfulness' they've put into their product will drive them into the ground. For the first time, I'm cheering for Microsoft when it comes to media players. (At least Microsoft doesn't require me to purchase an additional player to get "high end" content.) Not that I'm a friend of Microsoft either.
Yet another example of why we can't trust corporations to stream us video. Embrace open protocols, folks.
I noticed your curve is shrinking. 512 is 32x 16. The rest are 16x greater than the previous number. Your last upgrade is 12x. In this case, I don't think you underpurchased. I think memory requirements are starting to slow down. You might get more than 5-6 years out of that upgrade. Assuming, of course, memory PERFORMANCE isn't an issue.
The joke at the time was, "Stop playing with your Wang, and RTFM!"
I had a flashback to my college days (mid 1990's) where FSP was starting to see wide usage for distributing files. FSP was unofficially dubbed the "Free Software Protocol", which has absolutely nothing to do with Open Source and Free Software, but the delivery of commercial software.
FSP was really appealing because no matter how many people connected to a server, 1 or 100, all the data was delivered by a single UNIX user process. This reduced the file server's profile below the radar of many sysadmins. (As compared to FTPd, which would launch a daemon for each connection and completely saturate a connection.)
You could operate a FSP server right under the nose of your university without them even wandering what is going on.
BTW: You are defining a good SFTP client as one with a GUI?
Nice message. Good insight.
/. slashed off my "Rod".
Most memorable comment? The tag line.
At my company, there are two sets of standards.
The first is the theme. All servers are named after cartoon characters. There is an almost inexhaustable supply, and it is very easy (after a bit of time) to associate a character with a server. "Sluggo" can be far easier to remember then PDCCV04. Especially late at night.
The second method is to take a three letter city or site abbreviation, follow that with a two letter application abbreviation, and follow that by two numbers (starting at 01). Utterly boring, impossible to remember.
But then again, management started to like the second method after I named some servers after Pokemon characters. It seems they have some embarassment when they have to describe to a vice president the problems that [i]Jigglypuff[/i] is having.
But people who work with the servers definately know which are which. And you can guess that Charizard might be a pretty powerful 24-way with 24gb of RAM [e10k domain].